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The wrong kind of fibre - Openreach?

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Could anyone explain to me how I can have the wrong kind of fibre running past my house please? Openreach tell me (via ISP) that despite fibre running along my road and hanging on all the poles I can't have FTTP because its the wrong kind of fibre for gigabit FTTP (different network?) I can have Leased Line for £7k per year + £2.5K setup or FoD for £150pcm +£13K setup (neither convertible to FTTP later). Any explanation would be very helpful to my sanity... thanks!
 
Without knowing all the details.. The chances are that the fibre is probably for a private business leased line and so is not designed to feed other properties like a shared FTTP deployment would.
 
As Mark said, it could be a private Ethernet circuit, a community fibre or FTTPoD feed, an exchange fibre feed or the fibre route to cabinets and DSLAMs further down the line.
You can’t just tap in to this and get a service, the exchange set ups are different.
 
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Could anyone explain to me how I can have the wrong kind of fibre running past my house please? Openreach tell me (via ISP) that despite fibre running along my road and hanging on all the poles I can't have FTTP because its the wrong kind of fibre for gigabit FTTP (different network?) I can have Leased Line for £7k per year + £2.5K setup or FoD for £150pcm +£13K setup (neither convertible to FTTP later). Any explanation would be very helpful to my sanity... thanks!

Because it is likely the sort of fibre installed to provide a service like Fibre Ethernet, or backhaul for an FTTC cab, rather than the GPON setup used to provide FTTP. FTTP in the sense you're thinking is based on GPON, and that is not the same thing.

FoD (which I think you mean FTTPoD) - can be converted to regular FTTP service - after a minimum term, it becomes just like any other FTTP enabled line.

Editing to add, the other possibility is that it's fibre for another provider - some providers use Openreach's physical network - such as ducts and poles, it is again likely GPON based, but not on the openreach network, but on the physical infrastructure. It will, to the average person, look the same as it uses the same labelling and such (because that's part of the Openreach requirement for using the physical assets).
 
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